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This is the noun: the state or habit of being . You use it when you want to name the quality, not the person. If someone’s shiftlessness drives a family mad, it is their lazy, can’t-be-bothered way of living that hurts, not just one lazy afternoon. Same warning as : it is a hard, old-fashioned word, and it judges character. It is not shiftiness. Shiftiness is a dishonest look; shiftlessness is having no interest in trying.
不求上進、懶散成性
組成shiftless + -ness. -ness turns the adjective into a noun: the quality itself.
同家族的字
- shiftlessthis is shiftless plus -ness
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
shiftlessnessnoun
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The property of being shiftless.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。